The Imperium of Warden is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by HIM Charles I with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, deadly medical pandemics, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 31.671 billion Wardenians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Healthcare, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bastion. The average income tax rate is 20.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Wardenian economy, worth a remarkable 4,491 trillion talents a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 141,810 talents, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Dessert dishes make up the Wardenian breakfast menu, freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, and in a fit of passion HIM Charles I has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Warden's national animal is the butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Warden is ranked 43,527^th in the world and 313^th in the Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 293.98 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.